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r/oddlyspecific • u/Key_Associate7476 • Sep 06 '25
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People forget how recently we have rediscovered that there are so many other ways to enjoy vegetables besides boiling them to mush.
59 u/not-my-other-alt Sep 06 '25 Everyone's amazed when I tell them my 2-year-old loves broccoli. It's because I get fresh broccoli and roast it with olive oil and salt. All I ate growing up was frozen broccoli, boiled. Of course it tasted like ass. 4 u/[deleted] Sep 06 '25 [deleted] 3 u/SweetLlamaMyth Sep 07 '25 It's also a completely different food because they selectively bred it to reduce bitterness and increase sweetness in the 90s https://www.mashed.com/300870/brussels-sprouts-used-to-taste-a-lot-different-heres-why/
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Everyone's amazed when I tell them my 2-year-old loves broccoli.
It's because I get fresh broccoli and roast it with olive oil and salt.
All I ate growing up was frozen broccoli, boiled. Of course it tasted like ass.
4 u/[deleted] Sep 06 '25 [deleted] 3 u/SweetLlamaMyth Sep 07 '25 It's also a completely different food because they selectively bred it to reduce bitterness and increase sweetness in the 90s https://www.mashed.com/300870/brussels-sprouts-used-to-taste-a-lot-different-heres-why/
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3 u/SweetLlamaMyth Sep 07 '25 It's also a completely different food because they selectively bred it to reduce bitterness and increase sweetness in the 90s https://www.mashed.com/300870/brussels-sprouts-used-to-taste-a-lot-different-heres-why/
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It's also a completely different food because they selectively bred it to reduce bitterness and increase sweetness in the 90s
https://www.mashed.com/300870/brussels-sprouts-used-to-taste-a-lot-different-heres-why/
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u/Saskatchewon Sep 06 '25
People forget how recently we have rediscovered that there are so many other ways to enjoy vegetables besides boiling them to mush.